The host soon reacted with a tweet of his own, responding to the comments by saying: ‘Will all you sanctimonious f**kers f**k the f**k off Jenny Beavan is a friend and joshing is legitimate. Christ I want to leave the planet.’

He then shared a photo of him and Jenny looking cosy at the ceremony as proof that the pair are friends.

Even worse, Fry has now deleted his Twitter account. And we can’t help but feel the whole thing was a little bit of an overreaction – if Jenny took it in jest, then surely we should too?

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